Storm-window ventilator.



A. HOERSGH.

STORM WINDOW VENTILATOR.

APPLICATION FILED APBufi, 1913 Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

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WITNESSES:

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ANTON HOEBSCH, OF MENABHA, WISCONSIN.

STORM-WINDOW VENTILATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Ap lication and ril 5, 1913. Serial n 759,170.

Patented Aug. 4, 19141.

' To all whom it may concern Be'it known that I, AN'roN Honnson, a citizen of the United States, residing at Menasha, in the county of Winnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Storm-Window Ventilator, .of. which the following is a specification.

My invention 1s for use in 'av dwelling 1 house or other building, and is adapted for use upon a storm window sash in connection with the upper sash of an inside window of a room, for the purpose of providing ventilation thereof, and at the same time adapting said inside window for use as a ventilator, when the storm window sash has been removed during warm weather, the lowering of the sash of the inside window being entirely under the control of persons inside of the room and cannot be interfered with by persons outside thereof, and it consists of a supplemental ventilating sash, fitted into an opening above the glass within the usual storm sash upon the outside of a window, and is hinged from its upper rail for swinging outward, there being mechanism at each end of said supplemental sash connecting with the outside of the inside window sash for swinging said supplemental sash open and for closing the same, as said inside window sash is lowered for ventilating the room, or raised for closing the window, said upper sash of the inside window being provided with a screw for opening and closing it, the several parts being shown in the accompanying drawing, in which,-

Figure 1 is an elevation in which the upper portion of an inside'window and its casing is shown, the upper sash being lowered by means of a screw suspended from the soilit of the window lintel, it showing above the lowered sash the supplemental ventilating sash swung partly open, and some of the mechanism foroperating it. Fig. 2 is a vertical section upon the line a, a, of Fig. 1, as it appears in looking toward the left from said line. Fig. 3 is an elevation in which the upper portion of the storm and the outside casing of the usual window are shown, with the supplemental ventilating sash hinged to the upper rail of the storm sash, and showing a so, part of its operating mechanism. Fig. 4 is an elevation showing one corner of the window outside of the building, with the storm sash removed, a part of the operating mechanism bein secured to the upper end of said I inside sas 1. The other figures are details, F 1g. 5 being an end view of a nut which is secured'to the upper rail of the inside upper sash Fig. 6, is a plan of a socket for receivmg, the t per end of the sash operatin screw. Fig. is a side elevation of a re holder for attachment to the lower corners of the supplemental sash, Fig. 8 is a plan of an angle lever iron which is pivoted between ears of a plate which is secured tothe upper corners of the supplemental sash. Fig. '9 is an edge view of an open ended loop which is used in the operating mechanism. Fig.'10 is a plan of said loop. Fig. 11 is an edge view of a closed loop in which the loop '10 is arranged to slidel Fig. 12 is a plan of Fig'll.

Similar numerals and letters indicate like parts in the several views.

1, indicates the inside window casing and, 1", the outside casing; 2, the upper sash of the inside window; 3, the lower sash; 4, the top rail of the upper sash; 5, the side rails; 6, the glass; 7, the soflit of the window lintel; 7, sash stops; 8, a socket secured to the soflit into which the end of the screw 9 enters and is held from lengthwise movement; 10, a nut fitted to said screw; 11, a groove around the upper end of the screw rod for fitting the bore 12 in the socket; 13, a collar secured upon the upper end of the screw and forming one end of the groove 11. By turning thescrew by means of the element 9, which element may be a hand wheel, the sash 2 can be lowered any amount within the limits of the length of the screw, and a ventilating means provided of ample width for night use, and the screw being roperly limited in its length, the opening w1ll be safe from'the entrance of outsiders, and the opening and closing of the sash by means of the screw provides an easy and safe method of operating the window at all times of the year, eithder with or without the storm sash being use 14, indicates a storm sash which may extend the entire length and width of the outside opening for the window. It consists of the usual top rail 15, a bottom rail, (not shown,) any desired number of cross rails 16, intermediate the end rails, a supplemental cross rail 17, and side rails 18, the supplemental rail being spaced from the top rail the desired distance for the ventilating sash. The top rail 15, cross rail 17, and side rails between rails 15 and 17, are provided with rabbets 19 for receiving the rabbeted rail ventilating sash 20, which is hinged to the storm sash top rail with'butts 21. plate 22, provided with upstanding ears 23, 'is secured with screws or otherwise to each vertical rail of the sash 14, in each of which plates an angular lever is pivoted upon a pin 24, one arm of each lever being-a round rod 25,-which extends downward along a side. rail of the sash and is fitted to slide easily through a hole 26 in the holder plate 27,.and the other arm 28, is flattened, passed through a suitable mortise 22, through the plate and sash, and is connected to an open ended loop 29 by means of a pin or bolt 30, each loop 29 engaging around the closed loop 31 of the plate 32, which plate is secured to the outside of the inside window sash 2. The pin 30, may be a small cotter pin or a bolt and nut. The loop .31 is of some length, according to the distance of the vertical movement. of the sash 2, so that the sash being at the upward limit of its movement, it will be lowered about one half the distance it is arranged to be lowered, before the upper end of its loop 31, will engage with sash 20, closed,

the lower end of the loop 29,'and pulldownward upon the arm 28 for opening the ventilating sash 20. The loops 29 and 31, should be of such lengths and be so connected with the inside and ventilating sash, that when the inside sash is closed, the lower ends of the loops 29, will be engaged inside of the lower ends of the loops 31, .and hold the The round rod ends 25 of the angle levers, as the pull is made upon the ends 28, are caused to slide through the holes 26 in the plates 27, as the ventilating sash is swung upon its hinges.

It will be evident that with window sash provided with balancing weights, means for operating the sash are provided, so that the screw lowering means is not essential for the successful operation of the ventilating sash,

. ent, is,-

A window ventilator, comprising a vertically sliding window sash, a storm sash secured in the window opening outside of said sliding sash, a supplemental ventilating sash hinged upon its upper horizontal rail for swinging outwardly, and adapted for filling any space left unfilled by the storm window sash under the window lintel, an angular bent lever pivoted to swing a limited amount within a suitable holder which is secured to the outside of the supplemental sash side rails, a rod extending downward from near the pivotal point of each angular lever, a holder secured near each lower end of the supplemental sash side rails through a hole in which one of said rods slide,"an arm .ex-

shown is tending inward through the supplemental sash rails from the angle of each lever, a

closed loop secured upo-nthe outside of each side rail of the inside sash near its upper end, and an open ended loop connected with each closed loop aforesaid, and with the in ward extending arm of each angular lever aforesaid by means of a suitable removable pin or bolt.

ANTON HOERSCH.

Witnesses JEFFERSON WRIGHT, C. M. ALBEE. 

